Spokane vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

‘Hitler did nothing wrong,’ ‘Gas the Kikes,’ ‘Juden Raus,’ written in chalk on community support services building

By JTA 30 April 2017, 10:43 pm

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Illustrative photo of antisemitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, 2016. (Courtesy: Michaela Brown)

A building housing community support services and non-profit groups in downtown Spokane, Washington, was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.

The epithets written in chalk on the side of the building were discovered on Friday morning.

Among the anti-Semitic statements were: “Hitler did nothing wrong,” “Gas the Kikes” and “Juden Raus,” German for “Jews Out.” The graffiti also called for a “race war now.”

Interns for the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, which is housed in the building, first discovered the graffiti, the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported on Saturday.

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The incident was reported to police and the graffiti was covered up, according to the newspaper. Organizations housed in the building said they would remain and continue their work.

Racist and anti-Semitic white nationalist flyers were posted on the building last month.